[ThisWeek] Schultze Gets the Blues at the Kenworthy

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This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-

Schultze Gets the Blues (PG)
Friday, June 3
7:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday, June 4 & 5
4:15 & 7:00 PM
$5 adults, $2 children 12 and under
KFS passes accepted for Sunday shows
(See Review below)
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Next week at the Kenworthy-

The Upside of Anger (R)
Friday, June 10
7:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday, June 11 & 12
4:15 & 7:00 PM
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June at the Kenworthy-

Dear Frankie (PG13)
June 17, 7:00 PM & 9:30 PM
June 19, 4:30 & 7:00 PM

Wonderworks presents
Cool Cat
by Elizabeth Eagles, with music by Dan Bukvich
Saturday, June 18
7:30 PM
Tickets- $6 adults, children under 3 years are free

On Saturday, June 18, at 7:30 PM, Wonder Works will present ³Cool Cat,²
written and directed by Elizabeth Eagles with music by Dan Bukvich.  This
premier evening of theatre, music, and dance features the Gemberling
Brothers, guest choreographer Greg Halloran, and dancers from the University
of Idaho Center for Dance and Spectrum II Dance Studio.   Tickets are $6 for
adults.  Children under age 3 are free.  Tickets can be purchased at
BookPeople prior to the performance or at the door.

A silent art auction will take place in the lobby of the theater before the
performance and during intermission.
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Melinda & Melinda (PG13)
June 24, 7:00 PM
June 25, 4:45/7:00/9:15 PM
June 26, 4:45 & 7:00 PM

Summer Matinee Series
Wednesdays in June-

Shrek (PG)
Wednesday, June 15
1:00 PM & 3:15 PM

Spongebob Squarepants (PG)
Wednesday, June 22
1:00 & 3:15 PM

Fat Albert (PG)
Wednesday, June 29
1:00 & 3:15 PM

Wednesday matinee prices:  $4/adult, $1/child 12 or younger

Thanks to the following Wednesday matinee sponsors:
Insty Prints & North Idaho Athletic Club, Tom & JoAnn Trail, U.S. Bank,
Wells Fargo Bank


Coming in July: Ala Zingara, Racing Stripes, Millions, Two Brothers

Regular Movie prices:  $5 adult, $2 child 12 or younger.
Wednesday matinee prices:  $4/adult, $1/child 12 or younger
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!

Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho
For more information, call 208-882-4127 or visit http://www.kenworthy.org
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This week¹s review-

Schultze Gets the Blues

Directed by Michael Schorr
In German, with English subtitles
Running time: 114 minutes
Rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). It has nudity.

As reviewed by Stephen Holden writing for the New York Times

''Schultze Gets the Blues'' rediscovers the world through the astonished
eyes of a retired German salt miner on a musical pilgrimage to the United
States. As the title character (Horst Krause) ambles around the Texas Gulf
Coast and Louisiana bayou country, the screen drinks in the sultry, humid
atmosphere. Puttering on the local waterways in a battered blue motorboat,
using his few words of broken English to communicate, Schultze is like a
benign visitor from another galaxy who has simply dropped out of the sky.

The film's contemplation of the wonders of the everyday isn't limited to
Schultze's American odyssey. The German director and screenwriter Michael
Schorr, in his feature film debut, studies everything in sight from the same
childlike perspective.

As the movie begins, Schultze, who spent his life toiling in a salt mine, is
reluctantly pushed into early retirement along with several other miners,
including his best friends, Jürgen and Manfred. With nothing much to do,
they while away their days drinking beer, fishing, playing cards and
squabbling over chess. An amateur accordionist, Schultze belongs to a music
club whose members meet regularly to perform the same antique chorales and
polkas they have been recycling for decades.

At home one afternoon, Schultze's ears perk up at the accordion sounds of a
Texan zydeco band on the radio. He picks up the tune on his instrument and
soon becomes obsessed with it. Before long, he is experimenting in his
kitchen with Cajun dishes, including a spicy jambalaya that he serves to his
delighted friends. 

Asked to perform at the club's 50th-anniversary celebration, he decides,
after much debate, to play the zydeco tune instead of the expected polka.
The performance has a mixed reception. Several stunned members view his
defection as cultural heresy. The club nevertheless decides to send him as
its representative to a folk festival in Texas. Once there, he realizes he's
musically far outclassed and spends the rest of his stay enjoying a
vacation. 

''Schultze Gets the Blues'' is close in spirit to sweetly humanist cult
films like ''Baghdad Cafe'' that enfold you in a big, reassuring bear hug.

As reviewed by Sean Axmaker writing for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Schultze, a round, red-faced barrel of a retired mine worker, is the local
polka accordion king of his little German burg. When we first see him, he's
barely a supporting part in his own story, the companion of fellow
pensioners, they bicker over pints of ale and games of chess. Schultze looks
on silently. 

Then, alone one day at home, Schultze spins the radio dial and by chance
catches a zippy zydeco tune.

It taunts him. It haunts him. He tries to shut it off, but shuffles back for
another listen. He walks away, unsettled yet fascinated by the strange,
almost sacrilegious use of his traditional polka instrument. The next day,
his polka practice segues right into the zydeco song. It's stiff, a bit
mechanical, but liberating, and he plays with a runaway spirit. His
innocence is over. Zydeco is in his soul.

There's a pleasant delight in the comically dour faces of these old Eastern
bloc men, an appreciation of sleepy small-town life in a quaint village (the
modern world is just making itself felt in whispering windmill farms just
outside of town), and a celebration of Schultze's reawakening and
rejuvenation. Not that you ever see his expression change, but as his body
plays furiously, as if trying to keep up with the outpouring of music,
satisfaction and peace settle over his face.

That appreciation is extended to everyone in the film, from his fellow
German townsfolk to the Americans he meets on his odyssey through the Gulf
towns of Texas and Louisiana. It's the warmest, most generous portrait of
American hospitality you've seen from a European movie in some time.

As reviewed by Walter Addiego writing for the San Francisco Chronicle

After a life of toiling in the salt mines -- literally -- a taciturn and
rotund German named Schultze is nudged into early retirement and a "now
what?" existence. Unmarried, he spends his days cleaning his garden gnomes,
drinking beer with a couple of pals or playing the accordion in the local
music club. 

Time hangs heavy until one night when he's dial-spinning on the radio and
hears an astonishing and life-changing sound, a rhythm full of the aural
equivalents of peppers and garlic. It's zydeco music, and he tries to walk
away from it, but can't. He breaks out his trusty squeezebox and soon is
improvising a passable version of this intoxicating sound from America.

Schultze is excited to have something different in his life, and a bit
alarmed: He reports it to his doctor, as if it might be a sign of dementia.
He tries out the new sound on a couple of audiences, with mixed results.
Then he goes really wild: He cooks up a batch of jambalaya for his friends.

This is a droll, deadpan film, deliberately paced and told with simple
cinematic means -- the camera hardly ever budges. In his first feature,
writer-director Michael Schorr offers mildly surreal and satirical
observations about life in Schultze's dreary industrial hometown, and he
mostly sidesteps the sentimentality you might expect in a film about an
aging man surrounded by reminders of mortality.

A genuinely endearing soul, Schultze earns our admiration not because he
indulges himself in a senior citizen's lark but because his journey, like
our hero himself, has depths we hadn't suspected.


Film reviews researched and edited by Peter A. Haggart
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Kenworthy Film Society Passes on sale

Kenworthy Film Society pass prices will increase on July 1 to $30 for a
10-punch card and $75 for a $30-punch card.
That's still only $3.00 and $2.50 per movie, respectively -- the best deal
on movies in Moscow.

Why are prices increasing?  Specifically, because the cost of film shipping
has increased. 
Generally, because the cost of doing business has increased.

Passes can be purchased at the current prices through June 30, 2005, so get
yours now.
Passes are available at BookPeople and at the Kenworthy box office during
regular showtimes.

Thanks for your continued support of independent and foreign films on the
Palouse!
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PAMELA PALMER, Volunteer
Mailto:ppalmer at moscow.com
Film and Events Committee
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

http://www.kenworthy.org

To speak with a KPAC staff member,
call (208) 882-4127
Mailto:kpac at moscow.com
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